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First off I miss not having Picture in Picture. Can someone tell me when that will be available. I have two DVR STB. Next I hope the guide is changed to remove the distracting info tab that sits right in the middle of the screen and gives info on which ever abitrary channel lands onto the middle of the guide page when surfing through the guide. If anyone as answers to these two comments I sure would like to here from you. I don't think I can stand this situation for the remander of my contract.

Nope, verizon stb's do not have dual live buffers. the only companies that have dual line buffers (that I was aware of before your post) were TIVO and Dish Network. Now a third that you mentioned Ultimate TV.  All other cable companies,  Direct TV, Verizon, Comcast, Time Warner, and Cablevision, while they DO have dual tuners for recording capability, do not have dual BUFFERS, that would be required to make this work. It is actually related to another issue that many DVR users have been asking for and that is the ability to switch between buffers so you could watch two shows without having to record.
Tivo is the one I'm most familiar with, so that is the one I'm using for an example.  Tivo has two live buffers that allow each program on two tuners to be buffered for 30 minutes each. Other cable companies opted only for a single buffer but gave it a greater time limit. Usually 90 minutes. So effectively on the cable companies dvr's, they have one "live tuner" and one record tuner with a single buffer to output to the TV.
Now your right that this would be possible with only one output on the cable box......but only if they get the dual buffers. The cable companies have already stated that they do not plan to implement the dual buffers. So that leaves my original post. you have to have two boxes with different video signals to get the PIP.
Message Edited by spacedebris on 04-21-2009 03:09 PM

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